US President Barack Obama cancels the project initiated by his predecessor to send humans back to the Moon.
Archive for February 1, 2010
NASA drops moon plan and refocuses vision
President Barack Obama’s 2011 budget request has effectively shut down NASA’s five-year effort to return astronauts to the moon, leaving the U.S. space agency with lofty goals ? but no firm deadlines ? to once again send humans beyond Earth orbit.
Obama Budget Scraps NASA Moon Plan for ’21st Century Space Program’
U.S. President Barack Obama’s proposed 2011 NASA budget scraps the agency’s moon mission effort to make way for a 21st century space program.